HIV感染者的社會支持網絡

The Social Support Network for People Living with HIV

目的：依據生病經驗社會學的觀點，從HIV感染者為主體的角度，檢視其所面臨的生活壓力、自我調適與社會支持的類型與提供者。方法：系統回顧同時提到感染者、調適與社會支持三個主題的相關文獻，進行分類整理與分析。發現：感染者的生活壓力可以分成情感、工具、資訊與評價四個面向，藉由社會網絡取得支持性的資源減低生活壓力，而獲取社會支持的主要對象為家人朋友、社會服務機構、醫院、政府單位。結論：感染者尋求提供社會支持的對象，會隨著支持的類型產生不同的變化。這個發現是過去文獻較少提到的。

Objective: Based on the perspective of the sociology of illness experience, we examined the coping strategies of people living with HIV(PLWH) and the supportive resources they obtained through social network. Methods: A systematic review of literatures related to PLWH, coping strategies, and social support. Results: The social stress of PLWH can be divided into four dimensions: emotional, instrumental, informational, and appraisal. PLWH can obtain support to reduce the social stress through their social network and mainly from family and friends, social service agency, hospital, and government. Different types of support provided by different network objects. Conclusion: PLWH can obtain different social support from varies objects of social network as needed. This finding is rarely mentioned in related studies.